Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

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Referred to the committee of the whole.
Pending further debate, the committee
rose, and the house proceeded to the con-
sideration of resolutions expressive of
regret at the death of Senator Austin f.
Pike, of New Hampshire. As a mark of
respect to the memory of the deceased,
the house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23.
Unfinished business was announced,
being the bill to create a depart
ment of agriculture and labor. The
several amendments reported by the SEN
ate committee on agriculture to the house
bill were agreed to down to the one pro-
viding for the transfer of the signal SER
vice bureau to the department. of agri
culture and labor. 4 vote was 4aken
on the section transferring the weather
service of the signal service bureau as
amended end it was agreed to, yeas 81,
nays Is. The bill was then passed with
out division and a conference was asked.
The bill creates an executive depart
ment to be known as the department of
agriculture and labor, with a secretary
and assistant secretary, to be appointed
by the president and with the advice
and consent of the senate. Ad-
journed.
House.-Reagan, OF Texas, asked unan-
imous consent for the immediate consid-
Grafton of the senate bill incorporating
the Atlantic & Pacific Ship Railway com
pany. Anderson, of Kansas, object
ed, and the bill was referred to the
committee on commerce. MIR. Willis,
of Kentucky, asked that the house
non-cOncur in the senate amend,
ments to the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill, but Anderson also objected TO
the request (which, if granted, would
throw the bill Immediately into confer
ence), and the bill was referred to the
appropriation committee. Willis immedi-
ately reported it back, on a point of or
der, and it was sent to the committee of
the whole. Breckenridge submitted the
conference report on the bill making q
close season for mackerel, and it was
agreed to. The house then adjourned.
THURSDAY, Feb. 81.
fisheries retaliation bill was disagreed to.
and a conference asked. Sens Ed
munds, Frye and Morgan were appoint
ed senate conferees. The house bill to
provide term of court at Duluth, Mimi,
was reported back from the judiciary
committee and placed on the calendar
The senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the senate bill to extirpate
contagious leuro-pnsumonia, foot and
mouth disease, and rinderpest among
cattle, and to facilitate the expectation
of cattle and the products of live stock.
Various amendments to the bill giving
the president all the authority which had
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missiOners of agriculture were agreed to.
Without further action the senate ad-
] ourned.
House-Messas. Randall, Forney and
Ryan were appointed conferees of the
sundry civil appropriation bill. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Bragg the senate amendments
to the military academy appropriation bill
we're concurrcd in. Mr.. Matson called up
the dependent pension bill, with the
veto message of the president thereon.
1t was agreed to that the debate should !
run uatil 4 o'clock, when the previous
question should be considered as ordered. |
The question was then put: viii the
house upon reconsi asration, pass the bill
the presidents objections to the contrary
Notwithstanding? And it was decided in
the negative, yeas It's, nays 1875; not the
constituted two-thirds in the affirmative.
The house thea went into committee of
the whole on the naval bill, but without
com plotting it, adjourned.
FRIDAY, Feb. 25.
Senate--Among the bills reported from
the committees and placed on he calendar
were the following. house bill to annex
a portion of the territory OF Idaho to
Washington territory; granting right of
way to the Denver 81 Rio Grand Railroad
com pany through the Fort Crawford mil
itary reservation; to repeal certain pro
visions of the act relating to the pur-
chase of arms for the use of the states. |
The senate then resumed consideration
of the pleuro pneumonia bill, the pend
ing question being on the amendment
offered yesterday by Vest, requiring the |
assent OF the authorities of state before
the cattle commissioners can operate |
therein. Rejected-yeas, &c; nays, 81.
Senator Edmunds then offered as sub |
stitute for the bill, a bill approprlatlng
100000 to be expended under the di-
rection of the president Of the United
States, and in his discretion, through the
of agriculture, to aid the
proper authorities of the several states
in preventing the spread of the disease
commonly known as pleuro pneumo-
MIA among cattle. After debate Sen. Ed
munds' substitute was agreed to; yeas "a,
naye27. Sen. Van Wyck offered an amend
ment to make the bill apply also to the
swine plague, hog cholera, and other con-
tagious diseases among swine. The
substitute was then agreed to, and the
bill was passed, and conference asked.
Senators Hoar, Evarts and Pugh were
appointed conferees. Adjourned.
House.-Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, moved
to suspend the rules and pass the senate
bill providing for an agricultural expert
After considerable details
the bill was read. Mr.. Hatche's motion
to suspend the rules and pass the bill
was agreed to; 152 to II. Mr.. Burnss,
from the committee on appropriations,
the deficiency appropriation
bill, and it was referred to the
committee of the whole. Private
business having been dispensed with,
the house went into committee of
the whole, Mr.. McCreary in the chair, on
the naval appropriation bill. After
debate and pending further consid-
Grafton of this bill the committee rose.
Mr.. Herbert asked unanimous consent
that the session of the house be extended